The Wedding Planner

The Wedding Planner is an entertaining, gushingly romantic comedy-drama with Jennifer Lopez as professional wedding planner Mary Fiore, who arranges one wedding after another but herself lives a loveless life.

Mary's father tries to persuade her to enter into an arranged marriage with Massimo, a fellow countryman from Italy, in the hope that she will one day be happy. Prince Charming does turn up, however, and turns out to be the sweet paediatrician Steve Edison. After a single day in Steve's company Mary is floating on a pink cloud, but she comes down to earth with a bump, for shortly afterwards Steve is introduced as the groom at one of the weddings that Mary herself is to arrange.

In despair Mary chooses to go through with her father's arranged marriage, but in a 'last minute rescue' her dream man turns up to stop the wedding and declare his love for her.

The film's biggest problem is Matthew McConaughey's Steve. It is not credible that Steve goes out on the town with strange women just before his wedding. At the very least that ought to make any woman with a modicum of common sense think twice. Is this a man you can trust? Besides, the subplot with the arranged marriage is irritating and silly.